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Randomize variable value by percentage range

Source: R/create_variables.R
randomize_value_range.Rd

Randomize variable value by percentage range

Usage

randomize_value_range(dat, project, value, perc = NULL)

Arguments

dat

Main data frame over which to apply function. Table in FishSET database should contain the string `MainDataTable`.

project

Project name.

value

String, name of variable to jitter.

perc

Numeric, a vector of percentages to randomly adjust a column of values by. Defaults to a range of 0.05 - 0.15 (i.e. 5-15 percent of original value).

Details

This is one of the FishSET confidentiality functions. It adjusts a value by adding or substracting (chosen at random for each value) a percentage of the value. The percentage is randomly sampled from a range of percentages provided in the "perc" argument.

Examples

if (FALSE) {
randomize_value_range(pollockMainDataTable, "pollock", "LBS_270_POLLOCK_LBS")
}